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WHICH OF THESE IS AN IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER:
GEORGES BRAQUE
FRIDA KAHLO
PIERRE - AUGUSTE RENOIR
SALVADOR DALÍ
PABLO PICASSO
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
Who came up with the theories of General and Special Relativity?
Albert Einstein
Where was the first Soccer World Cup held?
Uruguay
The name of our executive director, his wife and child?
Aaron Castillo, Adriana and Bernardo
The leader of North Korea
Kim Jong-Un
Country who suffered the two worst earthquakes in history, killing 830,000 in 1556 and 750,000 in 1976
China
What are the University of Notre Dame’s colors, and what do they represent?
Gold- Light
Blue- Truth
Not an Impressionist Composer:
Erik Satie
Arnold Schoenberg
Claude Debussy
Isaac Albéniz
Arnold Schoenberg
The formula that represents the Pythagorean Theorem
c2=a2+b2
UEFA Champions League final
The most important match of the season in European club football took place at the ___________stadium in __________ (June 1st).
Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid
Where was the first European Phoenix Institute Program held?
Oxford
Who is hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Japan
Last president of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
Which two football related films have been filmed on campus?
"Knute Rockne, All American” and “Rudy”
What is the basic 4 voice distribution in a choir?
SATB:
Female: Soprano, Alto
Male: Tenor, Bass
What does the acronym NASA stand for?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The number of players in a baseball team
9 players
The full names of the three classes at Notre Dame's 2019 Phoenix Institute summer program
PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
Dr. V. Bradley Lewis
HERODOTUS, VIRGIL, AND THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Dr. William Carroll
OPENING TO TRANSCENDENCE. REDISCOVERING SYMBOL THROUGH THE CHRISTIAN LITERARY IMAGINATION
Dr. Clinton Brand
How many nation states are there in the EU?
28
A shelf essential is Thucydides' classic on this war
THE PELEPONNESIAN WAR
How many football national championships have the Fighting Irish won?
11 National Titles
How many symphonies did Beethoven write?
9 symphonies
In biology, what is the science of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics
Taxonomy
Name at least one of the Four NBA Teams That Don't Have a Mascot
Brooklyn Nets
Golden State Warriors
Los Angeles Lakers
New York Knicks
In what year was the PI’s summer program first held in ND?
1991
Brazil's current president
Jair Bolsonaro
Who advised Xerxes not to invade the Greeks?
Artabanus
Name the two lakes on campus
St Marys Lake
St Josephs Lake
Mention at least 3 of the 9 greek muses
Civilization who discovered the planets and named the first 6 of the Solar System
Mesopotamia
At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, gymnast Nadia Comaneci became the first gymnast to score a perfect 10. Which country was she representing?
Rumania
Name the places where the staff members currently live and what they do
Pau - Madrid/M.A in Humanities
Rocio - Bogotá/M.A in Clinical Psychology
Anita- Medellín/Civil Law Firm
Javier- Madrid/PhD
Fredy- Mexico City-London/ M.A in Comparative Literature
Who will take over as the next President of the European Central Bank in October 2019?
Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director and Chairwoman of the International Monetary Fund has been nominated as the president of the European Central Bank. She will replace Mario Draghi.
In the 400s B.C. Greek cities like Thebes & Megara had not a monarchy but this form of rule by a small group
An Oligarchy
Who is the head coach of ND’s football team?
Brian Kelly
Which are the main characteristics of a classic english sonnet?
14 lines, 10 syllables in each line, AB AB, CD CD, EF EF, GG
The circumference of planet Earth (approximately)
BONUS (+5): Who calculated it first?
40,000km
BONUS (+5): Eratosthenes
Which Jamaican sprinter won gold medals at the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay at three consecutive Olympic Games from 2008 - 2016?
Usain Bolt.
Year of the first Phoenix Institute Summer Program
1987
Greece's new prime minister and party name
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, New Democracy Party
The 1864 convention in this city called for relief to the wounded without any distinction as to nationality
The Geneva Convention
What does the sign that football players touch on their way out of the locker room say?
“Play like a champion today”
As a type of ink this brown pigment secreted by cuttlefish has been around since at least ancient Roman times
Sepia
What is the fattest human organ?
The brain: it is about 60% fat.
Which country has produced the most Formula One World Championship winning drivers?
The United Kingdom, with ten different winners.
Name the three courses of this summer's courses from the Trumau-Vienna Program
-PULCHRUM, VERUM, BONUM. A MUSICAL EXPLORATION ON HOW "BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD"
-INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW. BETWEEN UNIVERSALITY AND PLURALISM
-LIVING THE VIRTUES. JOSEF PIEPER ON HAPPINESS IN THE REAL WORLD
The name of the ethnic minority that is suffering a genocide in Myanmar?
Rohingya.
Treaties in 1858 & 1860 handed over to Russia large sections of this northeast Chinese region
Manchuria
In what year was the University of ND founded?
1842